Alifya Sohail
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Human rights reporter & producer @SochVideos. Fellow @jamhoormedia + Noor network.
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QUETTA: “We already received threats and intimidation. This attack proved that someone can throw acid on us, shoot us, or rape us inside the hospital itself.” Dr. Mahnoor remains under treatment. The full extent of the damage to her eyesight and body will only become clear as her recovery progresses.
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KARACHI: Hamdan’s mother thought she would finally give him the clothes she clutches on the day his remand was due to end. When he was eventually produced in CTD custody, his mother felt a strange relief. Jail, at least, meant he was alive. For fifty days, she waited to hand him the clothes but the CTD handed her his bullet riddled corpse. Today, the SHC has ordered an inquiry into Hamdan Baloch’s custodial death.
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On the day before a likely 7–14 year jail sentence, human-rights defenders and lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chatta made their position plain: they won’t back down from their principles to avoid or survive imprisonment. Tomorrow’s verdict in Islamabad won’t change the fact that the only thing on trial is the openly authoritarian state Pakistan has allowed itself to become.
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All the Basants in the world can’t hide the ugliness that is Islamabad.
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“Didn’t we go to Islamabad? Didn’t we try and speak to Pakistan? Why did it show us such hatred?”
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The lawyer who the state alleged was advocating for terrorists happened to represent hundreds of push cart vendors and ordinary residents of Islamabad whose lives and livelihoods are now being demolished by the CDA while she completes 88 days in jail. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
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We forgot about poet Mudassar Naaru who disappeared 8 years ago; his wife Sadaf who died of uncertainty 5 years ago; and their son Sachal, an eight year old orphan. Today, his dadi is forced to ask not only for her son’s freedom, but also for that of his lawyer, Imaan Mazari — the one person who didn’t forget. #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
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Before Aurat March could utter a word about the disappearance of Baloch women and underage girls, Sindh Police locked down Karachi Press Club and charged at the crowd. If a veteran artist like Sheema Kermani can be openly assaulted, one can only imagine what could be happening to Mahjabeen and Nasreena Baloch in the state’s torture cells.
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Who is Dr Sabiha Baloch? What kind of ‘terrorist facilitator’ stands in front of the state and consistently demands that political dialogue take precedence over violence to solve Balochistan’s problem? The Baloch who call for peace are the ones being jailed in the name of war.
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“I was arrested by the FIA’s cybercrime wing under false blasphemy allegations and jailed for three years. Today, I am only free because of my lawyers Hadi Ali Chattha and Imaan Mazari—who themselves are behind bars for defending people like us.” #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
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CM Maryam Nawaz is now preparing to deport the same Baloch women she once sat beside in 2021, when she said at D-Chowk: “When you’re out of power, you make grand promises. But when you’re in power, you become powerless. No matter how you got elected, how can these constraints be greater than your duty as a state? The state is supposed to be like a mother. At least tell them if their loved ones are in your torture cells or if they are dead so they can grieve.”
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In January, the PPP allowed Sindh police to assault dozens of Baloch women in Lyari, including me. In March, it allowed Sindh police to beat and arrest female activists, civil society members and journalists, including me. In November, it allowed Sindh police to illegally detain me for doing my job. If the PPP doesn’t want police violence on women recorded, it should stop using women’s bodies as targets in Sindh and Balochistan.
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KARACHI: Aurat March and KBA protest against the trial of Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha.
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According to M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸, the manipulation of Dr Mahrang Baloch and BYC leaders’ case isn’t happening around the Supreme Court—it’s happening inside it. First, the Sindh High Court threw out Dr. Mahrang Baloch’s petition on a cop’s lie that the challan was already filed. It wasn’t. It took half a year to appear. By then the Supreme Court had entered the plot—listing the case, delisting it, then quietly sliding it back in so the defence wouldn’t turn up and the case could be dismissed for “non-prosecution.”
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